iPhone saved soldier's life

iPhone saved soldier's life

News website KSL reports the iPhone 5s was in Staff Sgt. Shaun Frank's pocket when he came face-to-face with a teenage bomber in Afghanistan who triggered a bomb filled with ball bearings.

Thanks to the iPhone's metal body it was able to stop several bits of shrapnel from piercing his body. ‘My brother got several holes all over him,’ said Frank’s sister, Alisha Lantz. "Through his thumb, through his fingers, through his hands and his legs, just about the only place Frank wasn’t pierced was the left front pocket of his pants, where he kept his iPhone.” As expected there isn't much left of the phone with the screen shattered and a metal bending exit hole protruding from the aluminium back.

When Frank sent it to Apple to see if the damage was covered under his insurance, Apple had an unusual response. Apple said the company will replace it, but they would need to retain the destroyed phone. Frank chose to have the phone returned as a memento. Several months have passed, with Frank in Afghanistan without a phone.

His family in Utah is doing everything they can to get him a new one. “He needs a new iPhone. Apple, please give him a new iPhone,” pleaded Lantz. “I’m just so proud of him. He’s just…he’s my hero.” Apple was contacted and said it was looking into the situation but later declined to comment.